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[Philosopher]

The problem is developing your own weapons systems are extremely difficult. The Iranians have made great strides in their ballistic missile program but other conventional areas are sorely lacking,

On the contrary, the only conventional area Iran is lacking in is the airforce. Navy has its own ambitious projects, ground forces has good projects such as Karrar and other fields like airdefence and UAVs etc, Iran is there amongst the top. What Iran needs to do in the naval and ground forces is to invest in their projects to bring them to fruition much faster.

The only area Iran may directly purchase anything would be fighter jets. In other areas, Iran may import various technologies but Iran will never spent billions importing something itself will be building in the near future. Those billions Iran could spend purchasing would do wonders for its own industries given the relative cost effective ways Iran's defence industry performs.

 

[casual]

China can supply mankind with DNA engineered virus too.
China is good for Han Chinese people and for nobody else.
It's a racist regime and it's the country less reliable of the world currently.

And they, like Russia, if they have to choose between Iran or USA in a real war, always they will choose USA.

Modern military technology can't be trusted by foreign countries, they are all with hardware backdoors by the manufacturer, and it's impossible for the buyer detect it all.

China already fought the USA in Korea

 

[bolo]

still I would not be surprised at all if Trump calls Xi and tells him "we will reduce tariffs on you by 1% if you promise you won't export weapons to Iran" and then Xi accepts.

You know tariffs are paid by the Americans right?
1% doesn't do anything.

I encourage D Trump to decouple from China but Trump's hands are too small so he won't do it

 

[bolo]

There is a huge problem here, considering the fact that the worldwide banking is directly or indirectly tied to the US. They will simply target the company selling Iran the weapons ie. banning all their overseas accounts,freeze their funds and block any transactions that company does outside of China.

No they won't because you have to understand US dominance is based on the USD being world currency. They will not do this to allow China to counter by stop buying US T Bills permanently. That would cause USD to devalue.

 

[Figaro]

On the contrary, the only conventional area Iran is lacking in is the airforce. Navy has its own ambitious projects, ground forces has good projects such as Karrar and other fields like airdefence and UAVs etc, Iran is there amongst the top. What Iran needs to do in the naval and ground forces is to invest in their projects to bring them to fruition much faster.

The only area Iran may directly purchase anything would be fighter jets. In other areas, Iran may import various technologies but Iran will never spent billions importing something itself will be building in the near future. Those billions Iran could spend purchasing would do wonders for its own industries given the relative cost effective ways Iran's defence industry performs.

The Iranian air force needs to be improved ... fast. The Strait of Hormuz offers a natural disadvantage for the USN since they would have to operate in a very narrow strait, where they would be vulnerable. But air force is a completely different matter. The top of the line Iranian aircraft is the Mig 29 and it is hopeless against US 4th gens, let alone 5th gens like the F-35. Ultimately, overwhelming US air superiority would render Iranian air defenses, however strong they are, out of action and wreak complete havoc on Iranian ground forces. As the 1991 Persian Gulf War showed, even with a very integrated and modern air defence network, they cannot guarantee aerial security alone. Iran should definitely consult Russia or possibly even China about purchasing some of their latest 4th gen fighters, although this is doubtful considering the current US sanction policy.

 

[obj 705A]

I certainly do hope that China does export weapons to Iran, not only for Iran's sake but also for China's sake why? because the US has no problem openly sending weapons to sepratist forces inside China itself (in the Taiwan province I mean). so obeying the US in not sending weapons to Iran while the US itself is openly sending weapons to the separatists would be an act of pure weakness & would only embolden the US.
So even if Xi would decide to be absolutely pragmatic, the one & only case in which he should not send weapons to Iran is if Trump promises that the US (& it's allies) will stop all weapons shipments to the Taiwan province.

 

[Surya 1]

US won't let Iran buy weapons from China, Russia, Pompeo says
BY FRENCH PRESS AGENCY - AFP
PARIS MID-EAST
SEP 15, 2020 5:54 PM GMT+3

US. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Tuesday that Washington would prevent Iran from purchasing "Chinese tanks and Russian air defense systems" as the end to a U.N. arms embargo against Tehran approaches.

While the European Union and U.N. disagreed with the U.S. decision to withdraw from an international nuclear deal in 2018 and reimpose unilateral sanctions on Iran, Washington was acting to "keep the world safe," he told France Inter radio.

"We are going to act in a way – and we have acted in a way – that will prevent Iran from being able to purchase Chinese tanks and Russian air defense systems and resell weapons to Hezbollah to undermine the very efforts that (French) President (Emmanuel) Macron is ably trying to lead in Lebanon," Pompeo said.

Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group, has long been targeted by U.S. sanctions and is blacklisted as a "terrorist" organization.

But it is also a powerful political player with seats in parliament in Lebanon, where the French president is seeking to foster political reform.


"It's irreconcilable that you would permit Iran to have more money, more wealth and more arms and still be working to try and help disconnect Hezbollah from the disaster that they have created inside of Lebanon," Pompeo said.

The United States faces widespread opposition in a new bid to reimpose international sanctions on Iran, which has been progressively stepping up its nuclear activities since Washington pulled out of the deal in 2018.

It also wants to extend the U.N. arms embargo on the country expiring on Oct. 18.

"While the EU has made a different decision about that (nuclear) agreement, they share our concern about the extension of that arms embargo," Pompeo said.

The U.S., he insisted, would "continue to defend the international order to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from returning to its malign activity" in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

Iran earlier Tuesday warned the U.S. against making a "strategic mistake" after President Donald Trump threatened Tehran over reports it planned to avenge the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani.

US won't let Iran buy weapons from China, Russia, Pompeo says

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Tuesday that Washington would prevent Iran from purchasing 'Chinese tanks and Russian air defense systems' as the...

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China will have to obey what US says. Pompeo's sentence mean that.